Ryoichi (Roy) Sugimura
Work Experience
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 4/2016-Present
- Supervisory Innovation Coordinator of AIST 4/2016 – Present
- Visiting Professor of Tsukuba University 6/2019 – Present
- The HOD for SC 42 “Artificial Intelligence” in JTC 1, ISO/IEC 4/2018 – Present
NTT DOCOMO 10/2012-4/2016
- Director, Product Innovation Group, Product Department 04/2015-03/2016
- Director, Global Alliance, Marketing Department 10/2012-06/2013
FIDO Alliance 6/2015- 3/2016
- Deployment at Scale WG chair
Tizen Association, Delaware Corporation 02/2009 – 03/2015
- Chairman of the Board 02/2013-03/2015
- Treasurer, Officer 2009-2013
Panasonic Mobile Communications, Yokohama, Japan 01/2008 – 09/2012
- Senior Councilor
ESTEEMO, Kawasaki, Japan 11/2006 – 10/2008
- Deputy Managing Director(CEO), member of the board
Panasonic Mobile Communications, Yokohama, Japan 04/2004 – 10/2006
- Director of Mobile System Development Center 04/2006 – 10/2006
- Director of Base System Development Center 10/2004 – 03/2006
- Director of the Supervisory board of Symbian, UK. 04/2005 – 03/2006
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd 10/2001 – 09/2004
- Producer of D1 Corporate Strategic Project 09/2003 – 09/2004
- Director of Mobile System Research Laboratory 10/2001 – 08/2003
Panasonic Office Workstations Limited, Edinburgh, U.K. 10/1999 – 09/2001
- Managing Director (CEO)
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd. Osaka Japan 04/1989 – 09/1999
- Senior Researcher
Institute for New Generation Computer Technology, Tokyo Japan 06/1985–03/1989
- Researcher
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,Ltd, Osaka, Japan 04/1980 – 05/1985
- Researcher, Central Research Laboratory
Education
- Ph.D from Kyoto University 01/1998
- Master of Arts in International Master in Practicing Management (IMPM) from
Lancaster University, U.K. 12/1997 - Diploma from INSEAD in IMPM 12/1997
- BA from Kyoto University, 03/1980
Awards
- Prize winning from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, for the paper titled “Constraint Analysis of Logic Based Grammar”. 07/1988 (First Author)
- Prize winning from the Japanese Language Processing Society, for the paper titled “Large Scale Structuring and Re-Use of Language Data through Standard Tagging”, 1997 (Co-Author)
